FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 12, 2010                                                                                                                              [ PRINT ]

Joining Technologies of East Granby, CT, Honors Engineer/Employee Scott Boynton
with Thomas A. Edison Award for Technology Innovation.

Scott Boynton, an engineer with Joining Technologies, Inc. of East Granby, was honored April 7, 2010, with the company’s first Thomas A. Edison Award for Technology Innovation.

Boynton, an Electro-Mechanical Engineer at Joining Technologies, has been employed there since his senior year at East Granby High School. He continued his relationship with the company on a cooperative work/education program while attending Rochester Institute of Technology. After graduating from RIT in 2008 with a B.S. degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Boynton became a full time employee.

During his tenure with the company, Boynton demonstrated unique technical competency in math and robotics, offering many breakthrough achievements for this small but rapidly growing business. The company’s core competence lies in industrial laser applications. Boynton is currently working on his masters’ degree in Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer At Hartford.

The Thomas A. Edison Award was presented to Boynton for his design and implementation of the first of its type automated industrial laser system for a manufacturing process.

The highly specialized equipment combines laser cutting, welding and annealing for a specialized manufacturing process which is currently proprietary to the end-user.

The first unit was delivered in February of 2010 to a Connecticut area company which asks to remain anonymous. According to David Hudson, company president, “The performance of this workstation has exceeded our expectations.”

The laser system will enable this particular manufacturer to improve their efficiency factor over 200% from the latent conventional process.

Hudson went on to add “The reason the company principles, Michael Francoeur, CEO, and I, chose Thomas A. Edison as the historical icon was because of Edison’s brilliance in innovation and his vision as an entrepreneur. Boynton is our innovation hero and we wish to recognize him for that.”